Looks like it's not Piyush

The current television-talking-head speculation is that McCain's pick for vice president is going to be Sarah Palin, the female governor of Alaska. (News clue: a private plane bearing a woman and her children flew last night from Alaska to Ohio, where McCain currently resides. The final announcement wasn't made until noon today.)

There goes Rico's notion of the Dream Ticket Upside Down (white guy on top, ethnic on the bottom) of McCain and Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana. Of course, with hurricane Gustav bearing down on New Orleans (just what they don't need), Bobby's probably got his hands full.
But Palin's an interesting choice; according to Wikipedia, she was first runner-up in the 1984 Miss Alaska beauty pageant (which shows), and she hunts, eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane. Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it. Her husband, Todd, a native Yup'ik Eskimo, works for BP on the North Slope. Her son, Track, the eldest of Palin's five children, now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September. She also has three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7. Palin's second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, has Down's syndrome.

A female politician, married to a Native American, who shoots, and has a son (named Track; that'll get him grief from some sergeant) in the Army in Iraq and another with Down's syndrome, and killed the Bridge to Nowhere project. Pretty much covers all the bases; if McCain softens up a little, Rico says he might have to reconsider his vote come November...